statistics2004 to 2009

Half of all employers (46%) said they now offered teleworking to staff, an increase from 14% two years ago and 11% in 2004.
31% of employees reaching retirement age asked if they could postpone their retirement. Although it is 81% of those requests were granted.

95% of such requests from parents are accepted.

The survey of 513 respondents employing over 1m staff, showed that although flexible working has been a success, with 93% of employers offering at least one form of flexible working, and 57% offering at least three, there is deep concern among employers about other areas of employment law.

Teleworkers – one-third of UK workforce – 25 September 07

Pollsters YouGov UK, commissioned by Zurich Insurance, questioned 1,000 UK workers and found that a third telework at least “16 hours a month” at home – and that more of the workforce foresee that they will telework in the coming year. The UK workforce is about 25 million, so one-third equates to 8.3 million who sometimes telework. This provides a base for calculating how many UK households have home-offices linked into the telecoms networks.

Lots of Sex Please – We’re British – 13 Feb 07

The latest and the world’s largest survey of sexual fantasies has just been published by Penguin UK. It is based on more than 13,000 completed questionnaires issued by pollsters U.Gov. Sex & the Psyche is written by London psychotherapist Brett Khar. ISBN 978-0-713-99940-2. (see our pre-publication data below). It is a large book with masses of data – some relating to the internet which we may analyse later. For now, suffice it to say that the book lists about 100 favourite British fantasies – which I am diligently working my way through, as a labour of love. I may not survive this “for research only” work.

USA Profile – Time Magazine – 2 Nov 06

These statistics are highlights from Time Magazine November 6, 2006 – an article worth archiving.

Time Magazine	November 6, 2006	Headlines extracted by Noel Hodson.

Least Populous	Loving County, Texas		New York City, Metro Area	18,747,300
Most Populous	New Jersey

City Dwellers	80%		Coastal Dwellers	80% +
				Fem. 15-44
Women	51%		White	239.9M 1.85
Men	49%		Hispanic	44.2M 2.82
Total population	300 million		Black	38.3M 2.02
In 1790 Pop was	3.9 Million		Native Americans	2.9M 1.73
2050 Pop will be	400 Million		Asian	13.1M 1.90
			Births – replacement level	2.1
Solo dwellers	26.8%		College Ed
Marrying age W	25.8 years		Men	29%
Marrying age M	27.1 years		Women	26%

Voting			Voting
Always Vote	35%		Democrat	50%
Sometimes Vote	20%		Republican	50%

Religion			Religion
Believe in God	66%		Evangelical Protestant	34%
Believe in a Higher Force	14%		Mainline Protestant	22%
Believe but with doubts	11%		Roman Catholic	21%
No beliefs	5%		Black Protestant	5%
GOD IS:			Jewish	2.5%
Authoritarian	31%		BELIEVE IN:
Benevolent	23%		Atlantis	41%
Critical	16%		Hauntings	37%
Distant/Cosmic	24%		Mind over matter	28%
			UFO’s are aliens	25%
			Bigfoot, Yeti - etc	18%
			Fortune Telling	18%

WORK WEEKS			WORK WEEKS	Legal Taken
USA	46.2		Vacation - USA	0 3.9
Italy	41.1		- Italy	4 7.9
Britain	40.8		- Britain	4 6.6
France	40.7		- France	5 7.0
Germany	40.6		- Germany	4 7.8

US TAX RETURNS			US OCCUPATIONS	For Every 1,000 jobs there are
Total filed 2004	132,000,000		Cashiers	27 $16,260
50% less than	$30,000		Registered Nurses	18 $54,670
70% less than	$50,000		Waiters	17 $14,200
90% less than	$100,000		Janitors etc	16 $19,390
9.7 million earn	$100 to $200,000		Truck Drivers	12 $34,280
2.3 million earn	$200 to $500,000		PrimarySchool Teachers	11 $44,040
582,213 get	$500K to $2M		Carpenters	7 $35,580
65,548 get	$2M to $5M		Fast Food cooks	5 $15,080
15,853 get	$5M to $10M	0.5%	Lawyers	4 $98,930
9,677 get	$10M +		Bartenders	4 $15,850
OCCUPATIONS Change by 2014			Computer programmers	3 $63,420
Home HealthAide	+ 56%		Telemarketers	3 $20,360
Network Analysts	+ 55%		Firefighters	2 $39,060
Medical Assistant	+ 52%		Butchers	1 $26,590
Software engine.	+ 48%		Parking attendent	1 $16,930
Textile weaver	- 56%
Meter Readers	- 45%		EARN $1,000 IN:	TIME
Credit Checkers	- 41%		Radio Host	24 seconds
Mail Clerks	- 37%		Tennis Star	6 minutes
			CEO	2 hrs 55 minutes
			Police officer	43 hours
			Farmer	57 hours

British Sex on the Net – Time Magazine – 12 June 06

These statistics support the findings in Brett Kahr’s report below.

Pornography on the Net – 17th May 05

TIME MAGAZINE 12th June 2006 published more of their enigmatic stats:
9	million British men downloaded pornography from the Internet, last year.
1.4	million British women -ditto-
	Our assumptions
Population of the UK	60,000,000
Lifespan	72	years
so born PER YEAR	833,333
50% are male and 50% female	50%	50%

Men who downloaded images in 2005	9,000,000	1,400,000	Women who downloaded images in 2005
Males born per year	416,667	416,667	Females born per year
	AGE	AGE
Interested in sex with access to Internet from	14	14	Interested in sex with access to Internet from
to	80	54	to
years	66	40	years

Adult sexual males	27,500,000	16,666,667	Adult sexual females
Males with private/home access to the internet?	33%	20%	Women with private/home access to the internet?
Men with private access	9,075,000	3,333,333	Women with private access
Use pornography	100%	42%	Use pornography
	UK	UK

UK On-Line – Richard `Adams in the Guardian – 22 May 06

These statistics were published by Technology Guardian on the 15th September 2005.

ITEM	THEN	NOW
E-Bay	In 2000 there were £43 million of transactions.	Forecast for 2005 is £4 billion or 93 times more.


Digital TV	In 2000 15% of homes had digital TV	In 2005 61.9% have digital TV
Hours shopping		1 of every 5 hours shopping is now on the Internet

Video Games 56% of users are aged from 24 to 44	In 1996 £350M of videogames were sold in the UK	In 2004 £1.2 billion of Videogames were sold. 3.5 times more than in 1996.

Mobile Phones	2000 There were 40 million UK customers	2004 There were 60 million, or most of the population.
Broadband Connections	2001 1.4M	2004 6.2M (about 1/3^rd of households)

Digital Cameras	2001 935,000 UK customers	2006 forecast 5,964,348

EU teleworkers 1999-2005 - Empirica – 8 March 06

Werner B Korte, Director of Empirica, Bonn, presented the following statistics at a conference in Helsinki in September 2001. (Transcribed by SW2000)

	Teleworkers as % of total workforce 1999 2005
%		FIN		NL		SW		DK		D		UK		EU10		IRL		I		E		F
35
30
25			29		25		24
20		17							19
15				15		15		11			13		12		11
10										6		8		6			8		7
5																4		4			5		5
0																				3		3
0

		Regular and supplementary teleworkers as % of workforce - as presented in 2001
		R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S
%		10.8	6.0	8.3	6.3	8.0	7.2	6.6	3.9	4.4	1.6	4.8	2.8	4.1	2.0	1.9	2.6	2.9	0.7	2.3	0.6	2.0	0.8

UK teleworkers 2005 – 8 March 06

Extract from a BBC report 6 Oct 2005, which errs on (1) SW2000 Telework Studies counted UK teleworkers in 1990 & 1992. The EC conducted and published several surveys from 1993-1995 (2) There was 8% of the workforce teleworking in 1997 – not 4% (3) This report relies on flimsy estimates in ‘Labour Market Trends’ which in turn was based on guesses not surveys. (4) No account has been taken of independent polls by Gallup and others (5) No correlation has been made with mobile-phone, mobile-computers and other mobile-tools statistics. (6) No base-line is indicated, of what was ‘fixed place’ working before the advent of telework. The realistic number of people teleworking in 2005, at home, in their vehicles, out of hotels, at customer’s offices etc is nearer the US figures (30%+) and can conservatively be estimated at more than 18% of the workforce, or about 4.3 million UK teleworkers.

Rising numbers

Teleworkers were first counted back in 1997.

Teleworkers graph

Then, just 921,000 people said they used telephones or computers to let them work at home or to use their homes as a base for work.

Of these, 737,000 said they couldn't in fact work like this without both a computer and phone.

But by early 2005 the number of teleworkers had shot up to 2,377,000.

And most - 2.1 million - said they depended on their digital technology to work from home.

As a result all teleworkers now make up 8% of the working population, up from 4% in 1997.

However, Alexandra Jones of the Work Foundation says: "It's not as big a rise as some people were once predicting during the hype of the dot-com boom."

US telework statistics 2005 – posted 27 Feb 06.

An extract, courtesy of ITAC. For the full report go to the ITAC site:

http://www.workingfromanywhere.org/news/pr100405.htm

Research conducted for ITAC by The Dieringer Research Group as part of Dieringer’s 2005 American Interactive Consumer Survey.

The national survey was conducted from August 15 – September 1, 2005. The survey asked respondents to check up to 13 different locations where they may have conducted work in the past month. The survey found that out of 135.4 million American workers:

45.1 million worked from home,
24.3 million people worked at client’s or customer’s place of business,
20.6 million in their car,
16.3 million while on vacation,
15.1 million at a park or outdoor location, and
7.8 million while on a train or airplane

Among the 45.1 million Americans working from home (33.3% - NB – This will include traditional non-computer working, usually simple, piece-work; addressing envelopes, wrapping gifts etc ), the average number of locations they work from is 3.4.

This survey demonstrates that millions of Americans are embracing telework – the ability to work from anywhere. Other terms relating to telework include telecommuting (work at home), virtual work and mobile work.

“The ability for people to work from anywhere is attributed in part to increasing availability of portable computer and high-speed communication technologies,“ said Robert Smith, Director of ITAC. “For example, the use of broadband in the home by teleworkers increased by over 60% during the past year resulting in 25.6 million home-based teleworkers with high speed access.”

UK & EU Houses - 4 Nov 2005.

The mobility of Teleworking and advanced telecoms has evened out price differentials between UK regions and the process continues. This will happen across the world. The Information Society is a powerful influence on the cost and value of our homes.
UK Housing Market - Source – TheGuardian Oct 31 2005. Compiled by Grundy Northedge
40 years increase 51 times. (Retail prices have risen x 13)	Average home price today £170,000	First time buyers pay £157,000	House Owning
			Spain	92%
Homes 2004	25,000,000		Greece	90%
New homes built 2003/04	190,067		Ireland	83%
			Italy	83%
Mortgaged homes for rent 2004	526,000		UK	77%
			Austria	71%
Total Value	£3,221,000,000	55% of national assets.	France	71%
Mortgage debt AUG 2005	£932,000,000		Netherlands	64%
			Germany	57%
			15 nation EU Average	74%

The Oxford Internet Survey May 2005. Extracts 17 Oct 2005.

UK Survey 2005. The Internet in Britain – The Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) May 2005. www.oii.ox.ac.uk - extracts by SW2000 Telework Studies. For the full report email oxis@oii.ac.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 1865 287229 free download from www.oii.ac.uk/research/ Oxford Internet Institute

Sample – 2005 – Random sample across UK. 3,426 homes visited. Interviewed first available resident over 14 years old. 2,190 productive interviews. Interviews by ICM.